IMMUNOCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES: Immunochemistry is an advanced area of immunology. It deals with the chemical components and chemistry (chemical reactions) of immunological phenomena that is of antibody and antigen. Immunochemical methods are processes utilizing the highly specific affinity of an antibody for its antigen. It detects the distribution of a given protein or antigen in tissues or cells. The methods used for the immunochemical analysis are called Immunochemical techniques. Characteristics/Advantages
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Introduction Osteomyelitis is an ancient disease dating back to 460 BC (Schmitt‚ 2017). It is a bone infection‚ usually caused by bacteria‚ that can be either acute or chronic. This condition usually occurs as a result of an infection in one part of the body that is transported through the bloodstream to a bone in a distant location. Most cases stem from Diabetes because bacterial infections are a large risk factor for the diabetic patient due to high glucose levels weakening the immune system.
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Optical Colonoscopy was invented in 1969 and has been the gold standard for CRC screening ever since (Wolf‚ 1989). The gold standard is its 90% sensitivity for adenoma 5mm‚ and 97% sensitivity for advanced adenoma based on employing CTC as a standard. Colonoscopy is an invasive imaging procedure which visually examines the whole colon and permits the gastroenterologist to perform biopsies on suspicious polyps. A few additional disadvantages to this procedure besides the invasiveness are the prep
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R&D THRUSTS ON DENGUE Department of Science and Technology PHILIPPINE COUNCIL FOR HEALTH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Dengue R&D Program DENGUE COMMUNITY VECTOR CONTROL and MANAGEMENT HOST DIAGNOSIS TREATMENT Addresses the disease determinant factors in the epidemiologic cycle of dengue causation VECTOR CONTROL and MANAGEMENT Vector Control_________________ include targeting the mosquito vector/s in the habitats of its larval and adult stages in households and
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2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking‚ Applications and Services (Healthcom 2013) Clinical-based Prediction of Side Effects in Colon Cancer Chemotherapy Mouna Kacimi Ognjen Savkovi´c Manfred Mitterer Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano‚ Italy Mouna.Kacimi@unibz.it Faculty of Computer Science Free University of Bozen-Bolzano I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano‚ Italy Ognjen.Savkovic@unibz.it Hospital Franz Tappeiner I-39012‚ Meran-Merano
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1. The Detection of Pregnancy Associated Glycoproteins (PAG) in Routine Milk Recording Samples as an Indicator of Pregnancy in Dairy Cattle T.M.Byrem1‚ K. Velek2 & H.L. Pearse2 INTRODUCTION Accurate and timely detection of pregnancy in dairy cows is an essential component of any bovine reproductive management programme. Good reproductive performance has multiple financial benefits. Traditionally‚ pregnancy is determined through rectal palpation of the cow or by transrectal ultrasound
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levels of anxiety or depression. The currently used cut-off score of eight gives a specificity of 0.78 and a sensitivity of 0.90 for anxiety sub-scale‚ and a specificity of 0.79 and a sensitivity 0.83 for depression sub-scale (Bjelland et al.‚ 2002). In the present study‚ Cronbach’s alpha was 0.86 for depression and 0.84 for anxiety. The Health Anxiety Inventory (HAI) is 18-item questionnaire measuring clinical and non-clinical health anxiety. Each item is scored from 0 to 3. The first fourteen
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Which essential questions will you ask a pediatric patient or their caregiver when the presenting complaint is bloody diarrhea? Will these questions vary depending upon the child’s age? Why or why not? Studies show that diarrhea disease is the third cause of death among children younger than 5 years of age. According to World Health Organization (WHO)‚ acute diarrhea is the passage of three of more loose or liquid stools per day‚ that last three or more and for less than 14 days. Also‚ American Academy
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EPOCRATES: An Athenahealth Company FATIMA A. TORRADO Bachelor of Science of Pharmacy Mariano Marcos State University Batac City +639092434872 Fatimatorrado_05@yahoo.com ABSTRACT Mobile devices ( smartphones‚ tablet computers) have become ubiquitous and subsequently there has been a growth in mobile applications (apps). Concurrently‚ mobile devices have been integrated into health care practice due to the availability and quality of medical apps. These mobile medical apps offer increased access
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El Camino College Compton Educational Center Summer 2010 General microbiology lecture part review questions for final exam Adapted by Dr. Eyob Wallano 1. Which is mismatched? A. parasitism – one organism benefits and the other receives no benefit B. competition – one organism gives off substances that inhibit or kill other organisms C. predator – seeks out and ingests live prey D. scavengers – feed on live to dead cells and wastes E. omnivores – feed on plants and flesh 2. The conversion of
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